Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway. - eviltoast

Those non-violent protests shook them so bad they wanted to charge non-violent Quaker protestors with terrorism.

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    Partially because “peaceful” and the definition of what would or would not be accepted as valid protest became co-opted by the management/ ivy league class.

    Compare the Seattle WTO protests to the 2003-2005 Iraq protests.